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Called Oppo today & they suggested to install oShare on my PC. That was the perfect solution.

Yes OShare is mindblowingly simple for sharing your content on your Windows PC network. Far simpler than any of the Microsoft solutions and seems to work flawlessly. Seriously it could not be easier to install and configure.

Yes OShare is mindblowingly simple for sharing your content on your Windows PC network. Far simpler than any of the Microsoft solutions and seems to work flawlessly. Seriously it could not be easier to install and configure.

I have to agree. I kept telling myself this is too simple, that nothing is this easy. But, everything worked perfectly. Actually, it seems Oppo has made everything fairly simple to understand & easy to use. It has proven to be well worth the extra money!

Called Oppo today & they suggested to install oShare on my PC. That was the perfect solution.

That is certainly an easy and workable choice.
Windows media is not terribly functional.

If you are going the DLNA server route (which is what OShare is) you might consider trying JRiver Media Center too, just for kicks.
It works very well with the Oppos in general, and can take advantage of the 103/105 as renderers as well as players.
There is a very nice iPad app that lets you browse your media from the iPad and then play it on the Oppo from JRiver.
This frees you to
A) Turn off your TV when listening to music. Important for folks with bulb-based projectors (to avoid burn-outs) and plasmas (to avoid burn-in).
B) Have a far more rich interface for browsing/searching your media than a LURDS remote.

I tried about a dozen DLNA servers on windows and mac with my 103, along with about a half-dozen iPad apps for control.
No other combination of the dozens I tried was anywhere near as easy or reliable as JRiver 19 and JRemote.

Not saying you got bad guidance in any way. If OShare is working for you and you are happy with it the way it is, then super!
But if you want to go another step in usability...

That is certainly an easy and workable choice.
Windows media is not terribly functional.

If you are going the DLNA server route (which is what OShare is) you might consider trying JRiver Media Center too, just for kicks.
It works very well with the Oppos in general, and can take advantage of the 103/105 as renderers as well as players.
There is a very nice iPad app that lets you browse your media from the iPad and then play it on the Oppo from JRiver.
This frees you to
A) Turn off your TV when listening to music. Important for folks with bulb-based projectors (to avoid burn-outs) and plasmas (to avoid burn-in).
B) Have a far more rich interface for browsing/searching your media than a LURDS remote.

I tried about a dozen DLNA servers on windows and mac with my 103, along with about a half-dozen iPad apps for control.
No other combination of the dozens I tried was anywhere near as easy or reliable as JRiver 19 and JRemote.

Not saying you got bad guidance in any way. If OShare is working for you and you are happy with it the way it is, then super!
But if you want to go another step in usability...

Why on earth do you want to pay for a DLNA server or remote when they are free ones out there that work perfectly with the Oppo and many other BDPs and STBs.

The free DLNA servers don't even come close - nor do most of the other paid servers.

And while we are at it - if you are spending $500-$1000 on a BD-Player and thousands upon thousands on speakers, amp, etc., "why on earth" would you piss on the idea of spending the cost of a couple of movies to get a reliable, full-featured, fully-supported solution?

Yup. JRMC on the Mac is complete junk. Not stable in any way and constantly crashes. Not even beta quality.

agreed...and even what if it has gets to working well it will still be missing tons of the features of the Windows version. But if you are running Windows, which is what the person I originally responded to is running....

I had terrible luck with the ipad HDmediacontrol app on release firmware and beta firmware...I take it im not the only one? I would hard lock up randomly every 10 minutes or so...i really want it to work so i can leave the projector off when listening to music...is there some Wizardry that will help this out or are we waiting for new releases from oppo...?

1. My BDP-103 is hdmi connected to my Dennon x2000 which is hdmi connected to my Panasonic 65ZT60. I just updated the firm ware to BDP10x-67-1024 and now when I turn on the Oppo or hit home from another screen or start a dvd, etc the bottom 1/3 of the screen on the tv shows white vertical lines/streaks (no image visible in this white area). The image is fine above the white lines. After several seconds the screen will return to normal. Since it did not do this before the update I figure it must either be the update or a factory setting. Any suggestions?

2. I connected a usb external drive to the unit and have found several movie files that play, but with no sound. Formats with this issue include AVI, MPG, MP4 however other MPG files, etc on the same drive play video and sound fine.

Question for audiophiles.
Would I buy external DAC, such as the Rega DAC. Will there be a better sound in system?
The system is: Onkyo 3007, Oppo 103, Amp. Nad C352, Cd player Nad C 542 and complet 5.1 Monitor Audio RS speakers. Front is RS8, rear RS1.
Amp is connected via pre-out on Onkyo 3007.
For music I use CD player Nad C542,
and for Blu ray and DVD films is Oppo 103.
How to improve the sound system?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
However when I go to the 103's home page and select network, I can see the NAS but clicking on it to drill down to the any of the folders seems to lock the 103 up, it becomes completely unresponsive, to point I have to pull the power cord out. Odd thing is that if I use a DMC app such DS video or Kinsky on an Ipad I can see the 103 and I can then send it a moive and it plays it. It just seems that it freezes up when using its own home screen network function

This is a bug in the Oppo...

If your NAS library has very many entries in the branches of the library tree, (for example my library has over 800 albums in the "Albums" tree), then the Oppo downloads all of those entries into memory before it starts displaying anything on screen. (The Oppo does not actually freeze up -- if you wait long enough, it will come back to life once it has downloaded all entries).

I don't know why the Oppo behaves this way; the UPnP specification has a mechanism that allows large lists to be downloaded one screen page at a time. And as you observe most other devices and control points do indeed load and display one page at a time.

In my opinion this bug makes the Oppo unusable as a UPnP control point if you have any appreciable amount of stuff in your library. Most users with such a situation end up using a third party control point on a PC or a tablet (e.g. personally I use JRiver Media Center).

The free DLNA servers don't even come close - nor do most of the other paid servers.

And while we are at it - if you are spending $500-$1000 on a BD-Player and thousands upon thousands on speakers, amp, etc., "why on earth" would you piss on the idea of spending the cost of a couple of movies to get a reliable, full-featured, fully-supported solution?

Since updating to the newest beta firmware, the Youtube app requires me to sign in every time I start it. It works fine without a sign-in, but then it doesn't have access to my subscriptions, watchlists, etc. Anyone else noticing this?

If your NAS library has very many entries in the branches of the library tree, (for example my library has over 800 albums in the "Albums" tree), then the Oppo downloads all of those entries into memory before it starts displaying anything on screen. (The Oppo does not actually freeze up -- if you wait long enough, it will come back to life once it has downloaded all entries).

I don't know why the Oppo behaves this way; the UPnP specification has a mechanism that allows large lists to be downloaded one screen page at a time. And as you observe most other devices and control points do indeed load and display one page at a time.

In my opinion this bug makes the Oppo unusable as a UPnP control point if you have any appreciable amount of stuff in your library. Most users with such a situation end up using a third party control point on a PC or a tablet (e.g. personally I use JRiver Media Center).

Thanks for answering my question.. So okay then, I suppose I'll leave for a few hours and see how we get on. I personally use synologies own app for audio, DS-Audio but haven't yet settles on one for the video side of things.

The free DLNA servers don't even come close - nor do most of the other paid servers.

And while we are at it - if you are spending $500-$1000 on a BD-Player and thousands upon thousands on speakers, amp, etc., "why on earth" would you piss on the idea of spending the cost of a couple of movies to get a reliable, full-featured, fully-supported solution?

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Originally Posted by LairdWilliams

agreed...and even what if it has gets to working well it will still be missing tons of the features of the Windows version. But if you are running Windows, which is what the person I originally responded to is running....

I'll check out JRMC but I doubt if using this function enough will justify the extra $$. Then again... the 103 opens many doors that I wasn't aware of so maybe I'll use this more that I anticipated. We have our home theater located in our basement with a projector & all. It's nice to have our entire music collection at the touch of a button instead of jumping up & down changing CDs. Movies last hours so not as big of a deal. Wouldn't hurt to try it free for awhile. We'll see. Thanks for the tip!

2. I connected a usb external drive to the unit and have found several movie files that play, but with no sound. Formats with this issue include AVI, MPG, MP4 however other MPG files, etc on the same drive play video and sound fine.

We would need to know the audio codecs used inside those containers. There is a free utility "mediainfo" which will display that and much other useful info.

Since updating to the newest beta firmware, the Youtube app requires me to sign in every time I start it. It works fine without a sign-in, but then it doesn't have access to my subscriptions, watchlists, etc. Anyone else noticing this?

That's exactly what I'm doing with Crestron IR outputs, which means it would work with Xantech IR blocks too. I would expect it to work just fine with the Buffalo IR hub.

That's good to know, thanks. It works so well that way. I use the app on an 8" tablet as well, but structured IR is just so easy.
Yeah, the Xantech seem to be an industry standard and I think the Buffalo's are modeled after those, same power specs, at least for the four output one.

If I may ask at this point, what button do some of you use on the Harmony One that mimics the "return arrow" button from the 103 remote? Harmony One doesn't do this by default. Will this need to be setup by programming the Harmony? - hopefully both remotes setup end to end.

If your NAS library has very many entries in the branches of the library tree, (for example my library has over 800 albums in the "Albums" tree), then the Oppo downloads all of those entries into memory before it starts displaying anything on screen. (The Oppo does not actually freeze up -- if you wait long enough, it will come back to life once it has downloaded all entries).

I don't know why the Oppo behaves this way; the UPnP specification has a mechanism that allows large lists to be downloaded one screen page at a time. And as you observe most other devices and control points do indeed load and display one page at a time.

In my opinion this bug makes the Oppo unusable as a UPnP control point if you have any appreciable amount of stuff in your library. Most users with such a situation end up using a third party control point on a PC or a tablet (e.g. personally I use JRiver Media Center).

As another data point i've shared around 3400 albums using DLNA to the Oppo. Displaying the album folders and playing the tracks on the Oppo using its own GUI is almost instantaneous.

As another data point i've shared around 3400 albums using DLNA to the Oppo. Displaying the album folders and playing the tracks on the Oppo using its own GUI is almost instantaneous.

Hmm, I usually select the "All Music" (I think that's what it's called...basically all tracks from all albums) and prefer to run them in shuffle mode. With the Oppo GUI I have to wait till it has downloaded the entire index of tracks before I can change to shuffle mode since the Blue button used to do that will take me back while it's on the screen showing its indexing progress. With my appx 30,000 tracks this is long enough for my patience to run out. For this reason, I rarely use the Oppo to stream music, but use my Yamaha receiver instead. It seems to do the indexing in the background from what I can tell and it 'remembers' from one time to the next that I had set it to shuffle mode.